2. Marriages, giving name, race, and place of birth. 3. Births, according to nationality. 4. Deaths, according to nationality. 5. Buildings and industries, giving materials of which buildings are constructed, principal crops raised, and industries carried on, together with the distance from the capital. 6. Agricultural lands held by private parties, giving name of owner, number of acres, quality of soil, tenant or cultivator, position, boundaries, and crops raised on each farm. 7. Live stock, giving number of each of the several classes. 8. Prisons, giving race, place of birth, crime, sentence, and court of trial for all prisoners. 9. Public buildings and public instructions, giving material of which buildings are constructed, number of pupils by sex in public and private schools, number of persons unable to read or write, the number who could read, and the number who could both read and write. An examination of these schedules showed that they had been, for the most part, carefully prepared. About one-half of the population of the islands was reported and the returns came from 496 pueblos and 34 provinces. Of special importance as an aid in a subsequent census is the information here derived concerning the names and population of the various barrios. From this material tables have been constructed, giving the following information: 1. Population by sex and total for each pueblo reporting, and by provinces. 2. A comparison of the population of each pueblo reporting, with the population of the same pueblo in 1887. 3. A summary of the latter information by provinces. 4. Birth and death rates for each province and for the islands as a whole. Tables containing this information are attached hereto, marked "Appendix II.” Further information may be derived from this material concerning the population of each barrio or other division of the pueblos; the number of houses in each barrio and the amount of live stock there owned; also information concerning the ownership of agricultural lands, namely, the number of landowners in each pueblo, the number of hectares under cultivation, the average size of the holdings, the number of hectares of each class of land, and the variety of crops raised. I is to be noted that these schedules give the names of the owners of agricultural lands in about five hundred pueblos in the year 1896, together with a description of each holding in such form that the property in question can be identified. This information can not be subjected to a statistical statement, but will be of great importance in applying the system of land taxation already provided by law and may be used as collateral evidence in the future in proving titles to land by showing who was reputed to own the land in 1896 and who cultivated it at that time. |